Part 15 · Chapter 52

The Ari's Text

And afterwards, in the destruction of the Second Temple, there was the smallest diminution of all the times, and it is exactly like the time of the sin of the first man — like her being in the first aspect of Atzilut, back to back, being a point included of ten, namely her Malchut alone, back to back, under his Yesod. And a blemish was added in her: that those ten Sefirot of hers descended below, among the Klipot; and then “the supports were lost” (Samkhin Et'avidu), which are the NHY of ZA that support her.

Inner Light

This commentary hasn't been matched to individual seifim yet — items are shown in reading order, and the number beside each one counts the notes themselves, not the seifim of the Ari's text.

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1Her nine Sefirot descended below among the shells, and then “the supports were lost,” which are the NHY of ZA that support her, etc., and she fell under the Yesod that is in him, behind him. And here nothing of her ascended to ZA, as it did in the destruction of the First Temple; for indeed, even after the destruction of the Second Temple she did not return and become corrected in the discernment of a Partzuf permanently, but remained a point under the Yesod permanently. And it turns out that the sin caused the entire structure of Malchut to be brought down into the shells. Which is not so in the destruction of the First Temple: there she was corrected immediately after the destruction in the discernment of a Partzuf, back to back, with the illumination of the first five, permanently, and the sin flawed only the discernment of GAR alone, as above at length; and therefore at the moment of the destruction her nine Sefirot of the discernment of VAK ascended to ZA. See there.